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Handout
Joe Landsberger

Organizing and Pre Writing: Seven Stages of Writing Assignments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This research-based site provides step-by-step directions needed to complete an extended writing piece.
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Handout
Other

Roane State Community College: Online Writing Lab (Owl): Creating Outlines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Outlining isn't always an A-B-C, 1-2-3 exercise. Try this more informal system of outlining to organize your paragraphs and entire paper. This page also discusses writing introductions and conclusions.
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Activity
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making an Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A tip sheet on how to create and outline for a research paper.
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Website
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Line

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is from the artist's toolkit encyclopedia and includes information on types of lines, edge and outline, expressive line,...
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Edge and Outline

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This instructional activity is on edge and outline and the artwork studied is Fernand Leger's Divers on a Black Background. The...
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Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Power Notes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A printable note-taking format where students create an outline by assigning powers to the main idea and supporting details. Directions on how to use this type of rubric as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also...
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Writing Essays: The Structure of the Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lists the proper way to develop an outline before writing a paper or an essay.
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Handout
Other

Univ. Of Washington: How to Make an Outline [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Information on how to make an outline. Provides a sample.
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Professional Doc
Other

Minority Studies: Prejudice Its Forms and Causes

For Students 9th - 10th
A very informative chapter outline that breaks everything down into an easy-to-understand synopsis about prejudice.
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Article
Leaf Group

E How: How to Write a Self Assessment & Reflection Paper

For Students 9th - 10th
This article by Kara Page explains how to write a self-assessment and reflection paper. W.9-10.9 Analysis/Reflection/Research
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Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 53 secs] explaining how create an outline to plan the organization of a cause and effect essay. Following the lesson, a printable document provides an outline format for students to follow when writing their...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking: Word Selection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A screencast lesson [8:35] explaining how to determine which information is necessary and relevant when taking notes.
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Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Outlines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Show students how essential an outline is to writing a paper. This source provides explanations for writing an outline and information about how to create both formal and informal outlines.
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Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the organization of argumentative papers and developing an outline for them. It begins with topic, stance, and thesis statement; next one lists each claim in order of appearance in a paper and two different...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Classify and Categorize 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to categorize information to answer research questions and then to organization that information into an outline....
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Classify and Categorize 4th Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to organize research into an outline, use text features to locate information, and write a research report. Lessons...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Organizing Information Into an Outline

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students will take notes as they read Animal Homes by Ann O. Squire. This information will then be organized into an outline. Includes printable materials for teacher and students.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: English Mentor: How to Write a Career Research Paper

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This structural design will guide learners in writing a career research paper from start to finish. They will gather information; cite sources MLA style; develop a thesis statement, outline, and paragraphs; and create a research paper...
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Handout
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Outlines [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a collection of samples of outlines. Examples are provided for the following types of outlines: alphanumeric, full sentence, and decimal.
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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: Line

For Students 9th - 10th
This online dictionary of art terms from Artlex is a valuable tool. Line is on the Li page. Just scroll down to Line and read a definition with links or look at a sample works of art by Rembrandt or Richard Long. There are quotes by...
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Article
Other

Story Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this jot outline format to help organize all the important parts of your story.
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Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Start With an Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a brief, but effective, explanation of how to use a sentence outline to organize and shape your paper.
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Activity
Other

Young Author's Workshop: Writing/drafting

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Once you have an idea for your story, is there anywhere you can go online for writing advice? Definitely--the links on this page take you to writing tips, examples of good writing, places to sharpen your writing skills, and places to...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Classification and Division Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses structuring an outline for a classification paper.